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Stay Tuned with Preet

CAFE Insider 1/23: Trump’s Ineffective Counsel

Stay Tuned with Preet

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance assess the quality of the legal representation former President Donald Trump is receiving from lawyer Alina Habba in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, offering some lessons on courtroom procedure along the way.   In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss Trump’s arguments in a Supreme Court brief asking the justices to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying him from the presidential election ballot based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Stay informed. For analysis of the most important legal and political issues of our time, become a member of CAFE Insider: www.cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Preet here.

0:03.6

It was another busy week for former President Donald Trump.

0:07.0

In a new brief, Trump argues that chaos and Vedlam would be unleashed if the Supreme Court

0:11.8

upholds the Colorado Supreme Court's decision

0:14.3

disqualify him from the presidential election ballot based on section 3 of the 14th

0:18.8

amendment.

0:19.8

And Trump is defending himself in yet another civil trial bought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

0:24.0

This time, only the amount in damages is at issue.

0:27.0

And Carroll is seeking more than $10 million.

0:30.0

Joyce Vance and I discuss all of that and more on the Cafe Insider Podcast.

0:34.5

To listen to our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership

0:39.5

for just $1 for one month.

0:41.7

You can do that at cafe.com slash insider. That's cafe.com slash

0:46.6

insider. We look forward to having you as a part of the insider community.

0:55.0

So now we get to the question of the quality of the representation that Donald Trump is getting or has gotten in the past.

1:02.0

I did a television interview yesterday that has not yet aired

1:05.0

where I got the question, what do you think of Trump's lawyers? And I involuntarily began laughing,

1:17.0

which, and then I caught myself and I took a deep breath and I said, and tell me if you agree with this, then we'll talk about how his defamation defense has been going.

1:23.8

As an initial matter, Donald Trump

1:26.5

was the president of the United States of America.

1:29.7

And as the president and even as a former president he should be able to command among the finest

1:36.2

legal practitioners and minds in the country like at the very very very top of their profession and their game.

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